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Tinker Air Force Base, Okla Vol. 75, No. 50 Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. Friday, December 15, 2017 The next issue AFSC Squadron wins Robert T. Mason Award of Tinker Kimberly Woodruff Take Off 72nd Air Base Wing Public Affairs will be Jan. 5 The Robert T. Mason Award for depot maintenance excellence was presented to Tinker’s 567th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron director, William Baumann, INSIDE during the Secretary of Defense Maintenance Award banquet and ceremony on Dec. 5 in Chief Master Salt Lake City, Utah. Sergeant “The Robert T. Mason Award is the promotions highest level of recognition for the work we do,” said Baumann. “There are many Page 6 excellent large depots doing great work Clothe the overhauling not only aircraft, but tanks, Children drive ships, wheeled vehicles and submarines. It is humbling to be recognized as the best of Page 14 this group in the Department of Defense.” Also The squadron falls under the AFSC, located at Tinker AFB. Air Force photo Event Calendar.......20 The 567th AMXS accomplished depot Brig. Gen. Tom Miller, Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex Commander, second row cen- Crossword..............26 maintenance by utilizing Art of the Possible ter, and Col. Michael Allison, 76th Aircraft Maintenance Group Commander, far left, lead goals, producing a record breaking 25 B-1 a team from the OC-ALC’s 567th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron in receiving the Robert Classifieds ........... 26 aircraft in fiscal year 2016. They produced T. Mason Award for maintenance excellence at the Secretary of Defense’s Maintenance 13 depot aircraft and doubled the previous Awards banquet and ceremony held Dec. 5 in Salt Lake City, Utah. William Baumann, INSERT 567th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron director, holds the framed award and Rodney Shep- See Award page 27. ard, 567th AMXS deputy director, holds the trophy plaque. 75th Tinker Anniversary publication TINKER AIR FORCE BASE Celebrating 75 years Delivering Air Power for America Pegasus Gate to open Jan. 16 Tinker’s CFC campaign Jillian Coleman Staff Writer extended to Jan. 5 Supplement to the Tinker Take Off The Pegasus Gate will open at 5:30 ANNIVERSARIES: Tinker Air Force Base’s Combined Federal Tinker AFB 75 years * AWACS E-3 40 years * 507th ARW 45 years * TACAMO 25 years a.m. on Jan. 16, enhancing security on GATE CLOSURE Campaign has been extended to Jan. 5. Tinker Air Force Base. Four of the base Gott Gate Closed Tinker military members and civilians can gates will receive various upgrades, January 12, 5:30 p.m. donate through payroll deduction to CFC- most visible will be the implementation Through approved charities through that date. of serpentine “s-curves” that are November 2018 During this season of giving, Team Tinker currently installed at other gates across is encouraged to read the touching story of the installation. Jeremy. The story is a sensitive one, but it The Pegasus Gate, located south demonstrates how just a little kindness can Visit us online at of the Gott Gate on South Air Depot forever change someone’s life for good. www.tinker.af.mil Boulevard, will open Jan. 16 and will “Hi, I’m Jeremy. At age six, I had to be maintain operational hours of Monday removed from my parents’ home, due to drug through Friday, from 5:30 a.m. to 5:30 abuse and violence. But I was brought to a p.m. A traffic light will be installed on wonderful CFC-supported children’s charity South Air Depot, accompanied with that provides temporary shelter for kids like signage clearly designating the Pegasus me while they find a permanent home. When Gate’s location as well as alternate I arrived, my shoes were tattered and I had Like us on Facebook routes on the installation. Pegasus maintenance complex, which to start school the next day. But thanks to www.facebook.com/ Personal vehicles will be able to is expected to complete its three-year donations like yours, when I came back to the tinkerairforcebase access the Pegasus Gate from South construction project in 2018. The KC- CFC shelter I was presented with the first pair Air Depot, a quarter mile south of the 46 is the latest refueling tanker fleet of brand-new shoes I had ever owned. It felt Gott Gate. Pegasus will facilitate one introduced in the Air Force arsenal, so good! Someone cared about me and loved inbound and one outbound traffic lane, and base officials have projected its me. Now I am in a much better situation, but and include a guard shack and facilities. addition to Tinker Air Force Base to I will never forget that something as simple as The Pegasus Gate is named for its new shoes can make all the difference in the Follow us on Twitter proximity to the new 158-acre KC-46A See Pegasus page 27. @Team_Tinker See CFC page 27. 2 — www.TinkerTakeOff.com — December 15, 2017 Tinker Air Force Base U.S. Air Force photo/Greg L. Davis Boeing B-52H Stratofortress, poses in front of the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex Bldg. 3001 fol- Once an Okie, always an Okie: lowing major overhaul on May 1, 2017, at Tinker Air Force Base. The History of Reserve Airmen at Tinker Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Maj. Jon Quinlan 507th Air Refueling Wing, Chief of Public Affairs aircraft profile U.S. Air Force Reserve units served here dating back Greg L. Davis to June 1946, when they were still part of the Army Air 72nd Air Base Wing Public Affairs Office Forces. Since that time, Air Force Reserve units on base The Boeing B-52 “Stratofortress” is an eight-engine, have flown bombers, trainers, transports, fighters and strategic heavy bomber operated exclusively by the now command and control and aerial refueling aircraft. United States Air Force. The Big-Ugly Fat Fellow, or Early Reserve personnel were used as “fillers” to BUFF, as it is known, has played a significant role in meet worldwide requirements for strategic and tactical almost every combat operation in more than 60 years, forces. These individuals were from stateside units while also acting as a fearsome deterrent to adversaries who volunteered to augment the U.S. and allied forces U.S. Air Force Photo during the Cold War and afterward. overseas. The first Reservists served in the177th Army Members of the 507th Tactical Fighter Group pose for The B-52 program began as an effort by the newly Air Force Base Unit, which would eventually become a unit photo in front of the F-105 Thunderchief (left) established Air Force to equip itself with a long- the 310th Bomb Wing, Light in July 10, 1947. Records and the F-4 Phantom II (right) during the unit conver- sion at Tinker Air Force Base. In 1980, the 507th TFG range, strategic heavy bomber that was modern in of the time indicate they trained in the AT-7 Navigator Okies were re-equipped with the McDonnell Douglas design and capabilities. This meant the aircraft had and AT-11 Kansan. They also operated one C-47 that was “Mig Killer” F-4D fighter aircraft. to use jet engines to power the design, which drew used primarily for transporting Reservists to training at and reached peak strength of 1,259 Airmen in early from Boeing’s earlier all-jet bomber, the B-47, using Tinker Field. Unfortunately, most of those aircraft were shoulder mounted, slightly swept wings and traditional destroyed in the infamous “Tinker Tornado” of March 1951. For bombing practice, the unit used the artillery range at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in addition to ranges in tail configuration sitting on twin, tandem sets of 20, 1948. main landing gear with the wing-tips supported by New Mexico. Early recruiting efforts in Oklahoma grew the 310th retractable outrigger wheels. Other nods to the B-47 BW so quickly it was redesignated the 310th Air The 305th Troop Carrier Squadron activated here include eight J57 turbojet engines podded together by Division and became an administrative headquarters in 1957 to conduct routine Reserve training and operate twos and hung underneath the wing. The J57 turbojets for the 323rd Bombardment Wing, Light, which the Douglas C-124 Globemaster II. This Reserve unit were introduced by Pratt & Whitney in 1949 and were activated, in the Reserve June 27, 1949. The unit trained aircrew and maintainers on the B-26 Invader See Reserve page 12. See Aircraft page 19. This week in Tinker history Dec. 10, 1940 - Industries Dec. 13, 1943 - The first B-29 is overhauled. Communications-Electronics Facilities Program, Foundation raises $137,000 Maintenance installs extra fuel tanks on 104 the first official Oklahoma City program to be of $300,000 intended for land aircraft for “flying the hump” from India to Burma produced and maintained entirely by electronic purchase. to China. machine processing. Dec. 17, 1940 - R.A. Dec. 25, 1943 - The depot becomes a B-29 Dec. 15, 1959 - Ground communications is Singletary of the Chamber’s overhaul center. consolidated with Detachment 1, Continental Washington office learns that the Dec. 10, 1944 – “Family Day” open house Army Airways Communication System Region, Army Air Corps plans an air depot in the Midwest attracts 57,000 people. and forms The Oklahoma City Ground Electronics and that the Corps is considering Oklahoma City Dec. 31, 1946 - Personnel cuts in 1946 reduce Engineering and Installation Region. It is part of a potential site. Tinker employment to 14,212. the Air Materiel Command. Dec. 23, 1940 - The Industries Foundation Dec. 16, 1952 - Tests begin to determine the Dec. 12, 1962 - Oklahoma City Air Materiel decides to seek an air depot rather than an aircraft adequacy of mechanized electrical accounting Area becomes the system support manager for the factory for Oklahoma City.
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